li>0 Jonr., Bom. Nat. Hist. .Soc, Vol. XX (111, Xo. 1. [Dec. 30, liti'l. 



ii8i. (227) Zosterops aureiventer aureiventer, Hinnc's While- 

 eye. 



Z. aureiventer Huyne, Sir. Feath., vi., p. 519, (1878), {Tavoy). 

 Tennasserim, Mala}- Peninsula, North to S. Slian .States, 



1 182. (230) Zosterops siamensis. The Siamese White-eye. 



Blytb, Ibis, 1867, p. 34, {Siam.) 



Pegu, S.W. and Central Burma, Siani, f'ocbin China, etc. 



Ffmily Nectartnitd^. 



Sub-Family Neddriniinrp. 



Sunbirds. 



1 183. (881) Chalcostetha chalcostetha. Machfs Sunhird. 



Nectaiinia clialeostetha Jardinc, Nat. His. Ned., p. 2G3, (1843). 

 {E. Imtian Is.). 



Tennasserim, Soiilh llirouali Mala_y Pen. to Sumatra and 

 PJava, ete. 



1184. (882-3*) /Cthopyga siparaja seherias. The Himcdmjai} 



Yellow-bached Sunhird. 



Nectarinia .seheriflc Ticlell, J.A.S.B., ii., p. fyll, (1833), 

 (Borahhvm). 



Foothills of Himalayas from Kalka to Lower Shan 

 States. 



1 185. ^882) /Ethopyga siparaja miles. The Nepal Yelloiv-bacl-ed 



Sunhird. 



Cinnyris miles Hodg. Ind. Rev., ii., p. 273, (1837), (Nepal). 

 Nepal, aj^parently above the breeding range of seherice. 



ii86k (884) /Ethopyga siparaja cara. The Tennasserim Yelloio- 

 backed Sunhird. 



JE,. cara Htime, S.F., ii., p. 473, (1874), [Tennasseriw). 



Siam and Burma, South from Rangoon through the Malay 

 Pen. 



II 7. (885) /Cthopyga siparaja nicobarica. The Nicobar 

 o Yellow-backed Sunbird. 



(E. nicobarica Hume, 8.F., i., p. 412, (1873), (Nicobars). 

 The Nicobar Islands. 



1 188. (88G) /Ethopyg-a vigorsi. Vigors' Yellow-backed Sunhird. 



Cinnyris vigorsi Sykes, P.Z.S., 1832, p. 93, (Deccan). 

 S. W. Coast of India. 



•y??. s. a nder son i ([oes not appear to be recognizable, the distingtiishing charac- 

 ters being purely i^di^^dual. Rotlischild's riridiravda (Nov. Zool. XXVIII, p. .58, 

 1921), seems also to be founded on individual variation^. 



